[Snake65]

I wonder where Mr. "Common Sense" here picked up up that weird cosmology? The pro-pot tirade at the end was a hoot, especially the part about how it increases mental activity.

This is a must-read. Turgid, but funny.

[MarkWar]

>I wonder where Mr. "Common Sense" here picked up up that weird cosmology?

It all sounds like standard new age "wisdom" to me. Right down to the lucid dreaming stuff. I've heard this stuff from women (and men!) who've gone to "spritual retreats" for decades. Heck, if you read Michael Crichton's autobiography ("Travels," by Michael Crichton ), he recounts his stays at many such retreats where many (not all) of the same beliefs are accepted at face value.

Theosophy (grown from eastern mysticism) has been preaching that "souls" are here in the material world "learning" for generations. It's the whole karma thing -- souls that profit from life experience get to transcend the material world, those that don't, come back either as humans, or as animals. (That's why Hindus don't kill cows...)

Actually -- and I hate to do this because it's a really good book -- this entire world view of humans as spiritual beings in material "containers" being oppressed by exploitative power elites is lifted almost idea for idea from a very famous fringe book called:

The Gods of Eden," by William Bramley

Mark W.

[nopardons]

It's a juvenile, doper screed, interlaced with Gore's ad the Unibomber's carziness, with a dolop of New Agism / out of body / lucent dreaming garbage. He needs to be locked away for a VERY long time.

His parents are part of the problem. That his father has said that all he wanted to do, is get his message out , is outrageous ! the kid could have killed people, and claims ( which I soubt ) to HAVE killed people. He certainly is NOT " harmless " .